Swordtail Fry

[*pete*]

Wow those colors! O.O And they seem quite big at around 3 months.
Two of mine were born on April 3rd so they're a bit over a month old and barely 1.3 or so cm. They were extremely small when born, maybe because they were the first fry ever born by my female swordie who is also little.
A fry from her latest batch from a week ago is almost as big as his older siblings and is already colored up (red face, black body) but now I have 2 of the same color and a pink one. -.-
I hope they'll get along with the catfish once I put them into the main tank.

Thank you FishBlast...They sound lovely, it would be nice to see them !...what catfish are you getting ?

 

[FishBlast]

Wow those colors! O.O And they seem quite big at around 3 months.
Two of mine were born on April 3rd so they're a bit over a month old and barely 1.3 or so cm. They were extremely small when born, maybe because they were the first fry ever born by my female swordie who is also little.
A fry from her latest batch from a week ago is almost as big as his older siblings and is already colored up (red face, black body) but now I have 2 of the same color and a pink one. -.-
I hope they'll get along with the catfish once I put them into the main tank.

Thank you FishBlast...They sound lovely, it would be nice to see them !...what catfish are you getting ?

Can't take a good pic of them, but here they are. Ninja (left) Pinky (middle) and I don't know what to name their younger sibling that's not even a month old.
I'm suspecting Pinky of being a red hi-fin due to her shark-like dorsal fin.

I already have a catfish. A big old hoplo that saved some of the new batch of fry from getting eaten by the parents. He put a bunch of plants at the surface and when he saw the fry he went next to them and started making bubbles. Fail attempt at a nest lol, he was supposed to make a nest for a female. But since he is alone... He also sometimes hides the fry under him but it's hard to take pics.
You can see him crouching in this pic when he was trying to hide a pink fry.

The mommy swordtail was trying to eat the fry, but the hoplo was sitting there with his dorsal raised. Couldn't get a good pic though, the fry was so tiny and was somewhere under his gills. The fry then went right under a rock in front and never seen him since the swordtail parents went there. My mom was asking me to save the fry but I didn't want to overstock if the fry would survive.
Then mom saved another fry that she found in the weed nest at the top. -.- Now I have 3 fry to raise and when I'll get a new female, I'll be pushing the stocking to the limit...

The parents: